Label-holder



(1% Mel) H B PRESBY LABEL HOLDER.

No. 505,924. Patented Oct. 3,1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT B. PRESBY, OF MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

LABEL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 505,924, dated October3, 1893.

Application filed November 26, 1892. Serial No. 453,261- (NdmodeL) Toall whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERBERT B.PREsBY, of

Malden, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Card-Support for Labeling Cigars and otherMerchandise, which will, in connection with the accompanying drawings,be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the subjoined claim.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention asattached to a card and as secured to a box containing merchandise. Fig.3, is a section on line x.

The object of my invention is to provide a card, with its attachment,which can be readily secured to and detached from boxes, and otherpackages of merchandise, to indicate its value or quality; that isyielding, elastic and self-righting in case it is by any meansdisplaced, and which can be supplied at small cost; and it consists inthe subject matter next herein described and referred to in the appendedclaim.

Referring again to said drawings, a represents a show card which mayhave printed or displayed upon it, price, quality, or other facts aboutthe goods contained in box 6. A short strip of india rubber, or otherelastic material, shown at b is secured to card a by Fig. 2 is a sectionthrough line 2, and

the small wire staple c or by any equivalent means. To the opposite endof strip 1) I attach a hook d, which is formed to inclose strip 1) atone of its ends while the other terminates in a hook by which it issecured to box 6. This hook is looped, as atf, in order that it maycling'to box e and also that it shall have some slightly elastic lengthbetween the hook and the loop that incloses the strip I). Said strip maybe formed of various materials that are elastic, but I prefer indiarubber to any other material; and in order to manufacture these cardsrapidly I prefer the staple c as the means of uniting the card and stripb. It

will be readily apparent that with these cards attached to boxes, onecan reach over them, and displace them, by crowding them down ward, andyet they will at once resumetheir positions as soon as the object thatdisturbed them has been removed.

I claim as my invention The combination of card a, flexible strip 1),and hook d, the strip being secured .to the card and the hook to thestrip in manner substantially as described and for the purposesspecified.

HERBERT B. PRESBY.

Witnesses:

T. W. PORTER, L. W. Howns.

